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	Cult of Herodias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cult of Herodias, in medieval folklore, was a coven of witches worshipping the Roman goddess Diana and the Biblical character Herodias.
		Fables of this cult began to spread sometime before the 10th century, were denounced by the Roman Catholic Church as superstition or diabolical deception, and had largely died out by the time of the Reformation.
		This cult, according to the story, was mainly intended for women, preferably lesbian, as many considered Diana a lesbian goddess.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cult_of_Herodias (512 words)

	Cult: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Unlike legitimate religious movements, cults are characterized by high levels of dependency, exploitation, and compliance with demands of leadership that are unrelated to religion.
		Cults are groups that often exploit members psychologically and/or financially, typically by making members comply with leadership’s demands through certain types of psychological manipulation, popularly called mind control, and through the inculcation of deep-seated anxious dependency on the group and its leaders [1]
		The largest cults are well-financed and have active, ongoing public relations efforts.
	www.encyclopedian.com /cu/Cult.html (1356 words)

	Herodias: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Herodias Herodias Herodias was a Jewish princess famous for her beauty and love...brother that gave Herodias to him.
		Herodias was a Jewish princess famous for her beauty and love affaires, daughter of Aristobulus III of Judea.
		As John the Baptist had preached condemning this union, she got, by means of her daughter Salome, the order for John's beheading from Herod Antipas.
	www.encyclopedian.com /he/Herodias.html (299 words)

	Cult of Herodias (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Fables of this cult began to spread sometime before the 10th century, were denounced by the Catholic Church as superstition or diabolical deception, and had largely died out by the time of the Reformation.
		Some version of the tale added an explicitly anti-Christian character: Herodias, the Jewish princess who asked for the death of John the Baptist, who was deified.
		Among some modern Wiccans, Herodias is called Aradia, a corruption of the original name, due principally to the fact that in Late Latin and Italian the "h" is mute.
	publicliterature.org.cob-web.org:8888 /en/wikipedia/c/cu/cult_of_herodias.html (428 words)

	King Of Kings
		Herodias is probably the biggest piece of trash you're likely to run into and makes a good villain (as does Pilate).
		Herodias embodies all the decadence that Jesus stood opposed to.
		Herodias ascends to the throne after killing his old man. The movie sometimes sinks to using less than subtle methods to get its point across, thus you get sensationalistic scenes like the one where Herodias poisons his old man, then pushes him down the stairs leading up to his throne.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /KingOfKings.html (1709 words)

	The Roots & Reality In Magic & Witchcraft
		From later knowledge of the cult of the Divine Mother derived from the megalithic cultures of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean women chosen for this role were usually depicted seated upon a throne from which creation could be effected in the outside world.
		In Christian terms she was identified as Herodias, the wife of Herod, who was responsible for the death of John the Baptist.
		In Murray’s case she attempted to prove, as with the case of Painswick, that these customs were the remnants of a fertility cult focused on the horned god as the generative power of nature and personified at the Witches’ Sabbat by a human being dressed as a goat.
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/events/pagandayer2.htm (6018 words)

	Church Cult Sda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Three powerful ultratraditionalist lay movements in the Catholic Church are engaging in mysterious initiation ceremonies, using brainwashing techniques, moral church cult sda and spiritual intimidation, church cult sda and dangerous psychotherapeutic practices on members church cult sda and parishioners to shift the course of Catholic policy.
		In a narrative that will shock, horrify, church cult sda and enlighten all who follow the church, The Pope`s Armada exposes the bizarre agendas of the Focalare, Communion church cult sda and Liberation, church cult sda and the Neocatechumenate movements that have a total world membership of 30 million.
		It originally developed as a splinter client cult group from Scientology, so that they were declared "suppressive persons" by L. Cult of Herodias - The Cult of Herodias, in medieval folklore, was a coven of witches worshipping the Roman goddess Diana and the Biblical character Herodias.
	el14.markleeforcontroller.com /churchcultsda.html (654 words)

	Decollete: Judith & Salome Archives
		Salome is not mentioned by name in the bible, other than as "the Daughter of Herodias." The lurid, even by biblical standards, tale of a teenage girl dancing for her uncle/stepfather and demanding the head of a prophet in recompense for slander against her mother, has sparked the art of sublimation for centuries.
		"Herodias was married to Herod, the son of Herod the Great by Mariamme the daughter of Simon the high priest.
		Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not." The idea of revenge is tossed aside as soon as the artist imagines the dagger like flash in her eye.
	www.blastmilk.com /decollete/judith-salome (1612 words)

	Herodias and an Early Dianic Cult (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		But soon this cult became syncretic, incorporating some anti-Christian (the oppressing new religion) characters: Lucifer (Satan as bearer of light), God's adversary, and Herodias (the Jewish princess who asked for the death of John the Baptist), who was deified (as it happened with other historical characters in other cultures, i.e.
		Herodias was said to be the Queen of the Sabbath, who demanded human sacrifices, and the lesbian practices made during the reunions were said to be diabolical night meetings commencing with a banquet and ending with an orgy.
		Herodias is today named Aradia, a corruption of the original name, due principally to the fact that in Late Latin and Italian the "h" is mute.
	www.mik.fastload.org.cob-web.org:8888 /he/Herodias_and_an_Early_Dianic_Cult.html (462 words)

	Popular saints in Portugal: Saint John the Baptist
		Herod Antipas, the Judaean ruler, by denouncing him for marrying Herodias, the wife of his half-brother Herod, and was imprisoned (see Luke 3:1-20).
		In the Portuguese cult he is shown in two ways: as a fat little boy playing with a lamb, or as an adult man wearing a loincloth made of sheepskin (which was the dress of the ecstatic prophets and the emblem of the Essenians).
		The contagious ecstasy and the multitudinous frenzy, a common formula of the cult among the Hebrews, Phoenicians, and Egyptians, became integrated into the solar cult of São João, by the first Christians of Palentine and by the Jews, because the saint is common in the popular traditions of both religions.
	www.portcult.com /OPS_06.htm (2126 words)

	The Jezebel Spirit - Part 1 - Sure Word Ministries!
		Six hours later the cult priests still could produce no fire; twelve hours passed and Elijah began to mock them, "Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god; either he is occupied or gone aside...perhaps he is asleep and needs to be awakened" (vs 27).
		What Jezebel did to Elijah in the wilderness, Herodias now released against John: fear and discouragement blanketed the thought life of this mighty servant of God.
		For in this war between the spirits of Elijah and Jezebel, Herodias had her daughter dance before Herod, enticing from the king a promise to give whatever she asked.
	sureword.faithweb.com /jezebelspiritpartone.html (1706 words)

	Aradia (goddess) - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
		So far back as the sixth century the worship of Herodias and Diana by witches was condemned by a Church Council at Ancyra.
		Historian Ronald Hutton, in his Triumph of the Moon, suggests that this identification with Herodias was inspired by the work of Jules Michelet in Diabolism and Witchcraft.
		Sabina Magliocco, on the other hand, is willing to consider a connection between the Italian Erodiade (Herodias), the Cult of Herodias and Aradia.
	mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Aradia_(goddess) (509 words)

	stregoneria italiana
		The Cult of Herodias is believed by some Neo-Pagans to be a secret society, centered around the worship of Diana and/or Herodias, and thought to have existed in Italy from the pagan era to the modern age.
		Ratherius' may also replaced "Herodias" for "Diana" since the former was the most infamous woman of the New Testament, while the latter as stated earlier, was the only pagan goddess mentioned in the New Testament.
		His most cryptic statement that 'one-third of the earth is in her command' could be a result of anti-Jewish sentiments, or that as Ratherius had elsewhere lifted several of Mercator's other forgeries, it is just as possible that Ratherius was quoting some other as yet unknown False Decretal.
	www.stregoneriaitaliana.com /index.php?a=12&t=990 (1787 words)

	The Apostolic Truth Ministries
		Num 9:15-23 (KJV) And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
		For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
		Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
	www.angelfire.com /ms2/cultministry/cultman/august/aug27.html (2491 words)

	HGO lifts biblical veil of `Salome' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The ambience was dim, gloomy and institutionally unreal.
		In one example, the mouth of Fink was projected on the rear of the set as he sang offstage.
		He and Herodias, a haughty, evilly sane person in Ciesinski's portrayal, have a hate-filled co-dependent relationship.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/97/01/25/salome.0-0.html (743 words)

	The Christmas Fable
		Zoroastrianism had a cult that worshipped the rebirth of the sun, Mithraism.
		The myth states that Mithras was born on December 25 as the unconquerable sun whose final conquest was the destruction of darkness.
		One of the best-known examples is of Herod's birthday where he was pleased by the daughter of Herodias and offered her what ever she wanted.
	www.paleotimes.org /articles/christmasFable.htm (1106 words)

	Image: Art, Faith, Mystery
		The expressions of Herodias, Salome, and Herod suggest a slow dawning awareness of the enormous bloodless head in the extreme foreground.
		The glazed stupefaction of the characters—Herod's red nose suggests cocaine use and Herodias lifts another glass to thick lips in a gesture that fuses a toast to John's severed head with the woozy clutch of an alcoholic—portray senses that are both engorged and anesthetized.
		For instance, Ed built the character of Herodias on his memories of the "small town society lady, with all of her ideas of elegance, importance, and social control." The high-strung vanity of Herodias, outfitted like a child who has been rummaging in a dress-up box, fuses comic pretensions with dark ambitions.
	www.imagejournal.org /back/003/prescott_essay.asp (5712 words)

	TheTruthTree.com: JESUS, chapter 6
		Herod threw a birthday party for himself and invited all the nobles, high-ranking officials, and influential citizens of the region of Galilee.
		During the party, Herodias' daughter danced for the guests and pleased Herod and the people at his table.
		View a website on the Jonestown cult, a case study in religious leadership gone wrong.
	www.thetruthtree.com /jesus/study_6.shtml (2715 words)

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		The Lare cult maintains a strong family connection, and is largely respon- sible for the existence of hereditary Italian witch families.
		It is inter- esting, because a cult formed in the Groves of Nemi around this theme, and was comprised of outlaws and runaway slaves from Rome.
		Historical references to the cult of Diana and Dianus (other than Classical Age) appear as early as the 4th Century A.D. Jana is one of the names we Aridians use for the Goddess (the others are Tana & Fana).
	mysteria.com /pub/culture/wicca/BoS/1901-000.TXT (17693 words)

	Lilith - the first eve
		An extreme cult of purity led to the view that every act of impurity, whether conscious or unconscious, engenders demons.
		According to Gerald Gardner there is a tradition of the continuous worship of Lilith to the present time in witchcraft, and that hers is the name sometimes given to the Goddess being personified, in ritual, by the coven Priestess.
		He notes that she is mentioned in the old Slavonian spells and charms, and therein has twelve daughters, an instance of the witches thirteen perhaps.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/lillith.htm (4843 words)

	What is Stregheria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The latter indicates an association with King Herod of the Bible, and the tale of Herodias who was instrumental in the beheading of John the Baptist.
		Plutarch mentions it together with ‘the nocturnal one.’ To his cult, which in Attica was associated with the Apaturia, belonged a legend which obviously referred to the spirit realm beneath the earth.
		The cult of Dionysus in the region of Benevento is evident in the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii, which is about 50 miles south of Benevento.
	www.stregheria.com /Society.htm (8681 words)

	Haunted and Holy Places
		That the worship of the white ladies as goddesses continued in secret and that some of these priestesses were themselves identified with the white ladies.
		That the Catholic Church, seeking to absorb the power of the white ladies in a subordinate position to their god, began the cult of the Virgin Mary, assimilated pagan spots into Christian ones, and initiated the Inquisition to discover the means of manipulation of the forces to create their own `miracles.'
		That certain occultists, using knowledge passed from the keepers of the white lady tradition, plus renegade priests and their own reasoning, rediscovered the secret of manipulating the forces on their own.
	www.innervision.com /mysteries/goddess.html (1096 words)

	Who was a Christian in the Holy Land?: H
		John the Baptist rebuked Herod Antipas because of Herodias, the wife of Herod Philip, who was a half-brother of Antipas.
		Tetrarch Philip married afterwards Salome, who was, according to some traditions, the dancing daughter of Herodias.
		In memory of this victory Herod built at the foot of the hill the settlement Herodia, and on the summit of the hill the fortress Herodium.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/ofm/sbf/escurs/wwc/h.html (5131 words)

	A True History Of Witchcraft
		The first time I met someone who thought she was a "witch," she started going on about being a "blue of the cloak." I should've been warned right then and there.
		The original Gardnarian current is still well enough known and widely enough in vogue (in Britain and Ireland especially) that one can venture to assert that what Gardnarian Wicca is all about is the same thing Crowley was attempting with a more narrow, more intellectual constituency in the magickal orders under his direct influence.
		Certainly, the foundations of feminist Wicca and the modern cult of the goddess are challenged with the fact that the goddess in question may be Nuit, her manifestation the sworn whore, Our Lady Babalon, the Scarlet Woman.
	members.fortunecity.com /dashiel/history.html (7993 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Salome Revealed
		In every version of the story before Wilde's, it was Herodias who demanded the Baptist's head, and the evangelists explain why: John had denounced Herodias for her divorce from one uncle and marriage to another.
		It has a different meaning for the principals--where Herod is aroused, Salome is using her newfound sensuality to avenge the loss of her innocence and the frustration of her first passion.
		Rescuing the zaïmph from Matho the Libyan, who has stolen it to lure Salammbô to his arms, is the heroine's principal action, and she expires at the instant he is executed for his crime.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/51.html (2089 words)

	Erasing History
		Episcopi, the first portion, ordering bishops to eject from their districts those who practice sorcery and magic arts; also the second portion, concerning Diana and Herodias - all of which is introduced to show that the followers of Diana are heretics, to be punished as such.
		Tostato also says the Canon forbids belief in Diana and Herodias as goddesses, which is an issue entirely separate from the question of the reality of flight; whether or not the Spanish malefacae could fly has nothing to do with whether the Canon forbids worship of Pagan gods and goddesses.
		Rather, it is the appearance of Diana and Herodias and the rest, whom the Canon says are really Satan disguised; their appearance is illusory.
	home.comcast.net /~bichaunt/erasinghistory.html (16842 words)

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